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Beachside community boasts cultural and culinary delights
By Ray Chaaya Nov 14, 2014, 5:00 PM EST
Unlike the average Floridian beach, Daytona's hard-packed sand makes running a breeze. Credit: Daytona Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau
Every year Daytona is flooded by rowdy tourists for Bike Week and spring break, giving the city — best known as the home of NASCAR and the Daytona International Speedway — a tough, no-holds-barred atmosphere. Fortunately for those looking for a more soothing vacation spot, this beachside community boasts calmer cultural delights and an array of cuisines that would please even the most sophisticated palate. And don't forget the convivial spirit; this is the home of the Jackie Robinson Ballpark, where the trailblazer played his first major league baseball game in 1946.
But back to sophistication. Take the August Seven Inn; this stately 19th-century home stands on the corner of South Peninsula Drive and Silver Beach Avenue, greeting beach-bound travellers heading eastward. Host Joseph Dirsa welcomes guests at the door of his three-storey clapboard mansion. His impressive stature — he virtually fills the doorway — may be intimidating at first, but that feeling is soon dispelled by his warm smile and friendly disposition.
The lure of any small inn is often its charming interior, where guests spend most of their time. However, it is impossible to ignore the August Seven's impressive wraparound veranda, with seating for lounging and dining. "I can spend hours watching the world go by," Dirsa says, noticing me gazing at the deck.
The inn features several tastefully appointed parlours, a dining room and a well-stocked pantry. Formal yet cozy, each room on the main floor makes an inviting impression. I'm especially drawn to what Dirsa calls the Tranquility Room, where two massage recliners overlook the front lawn.
Each guest room is named after a date of significance to Dirsa, from his mom's birthday to the day he took ownership of the inn. The décor of my room, 1221, in the carriage house next door to the main house, is a mix of nautical and Hawaiian surf. The whirlpool tub in the centre of the suite provides much-needed relief after the rigours of exploring the city.
Zip-lining through the tree-top obstacle courses of urban Tuscawilla Park with Zoom Air is a full-body workout that easily fills an afternoon. Harnessed adventurers can test their aerial prowess soaring above palm trees and lush marshes with three different courses of varying difficulty.
Unlike the average Floridian beach, Dayona's hard-packed sand makes running a breeze. It also makes Daytona the state's only county to offer beach driving. The feature gets mixed reactions; for beach-goers looking to escape civilization, car traffic on the beach isn't always appetizing.
Back at the August Seven Inn after a day of activity, I peruse a veritable foodie bible: an album of Daytona restaurant menus. The dog-eared state of some and the crispness of others give a sense of the local food industry's growth and the discerning palates of Daytonians. As I flip through, I contemplate where to adjust my calorie deficit.
"Our Daytona Beach-area restaurants are in close proximity to the freshest catch, sometimes literally a minute away from the markets that serve them," says Tonya West, of Daytona Beach's destination marketing organization. "Ocean-inspired cuisine and the creativity of our area chefs have helped the area's burgeoning food scene that exists alongside landmark institutions. The area is solidly becoming a memorable destination to dine."
Dirsa doesn't hesitate when asked where he'd go for a fine-dining experience with his partner. "The Cellar," he says. "I've never had a complaint about it. Not one." (He likes to follow it up with drinks at the Streamline, the local gay bar.) It's no wonder. The Cellar is an elegant Italian restaurant tucked beneath the summer home of early-1920s president Warren Harding. Though the 29th American leader served a scandalous term, both in his affairs in the Oval Office and the White House bedroom, there's no trace of impurity at The Cellar. Visitors should expect "great food matched by great service," owner Lina Maggio says.
In a formal yet comfortable atmosphere, diners enjoy traditional Italian pasta dishes, fresh fish entrees and decadent desserts. The Cellar is the city's only restaurant with a dress code, which means that beach-goers must head back to the inn for a costume change before dining.
As an alternative, Dancing Avocado, with its 1960s décor, is a casual space where folks can devour a delicious sandwich, burrito or salad. The restaurant uses fresh ingredients and has a variety of healthy options and vegetarian dishes. "We wanted a place where vegetarians can come but still bring their meat-eating friends," says manager Bill Maher. The Dancer Avocado Melt is the restaurant's bestseller. "It's a glorified grilled cheese," Maher says. It consists of stacked cheese, slices of avocado and homegrown sprouts. The secret ingredient is Dancer Dust, a savoury combination of 17 spices that had me thinking about licking my plate.
Not all the best spots to eat are in the city. Just north of Daytona, in Ormond Beach, Fusion 43 features a menu that never goes stale, changing every three months. "It's like opening a new business every season," owner Anthony Trevena says. "Currently, we're featuring California-Caribbean, and prior to this menu it was Brazilian-Greek because I've spent time in Brazil and loved it. Before that, the menu was Asian-Australian, so we had wagyu beef on the menu and even kangaroo."
Trevena says the restaurant is a reflection of himself. "I have a short attention span and am culturally diverse in my travels, so it made sense to open a fusion restaurant with a changing menu." The restaurant is situated in a former boarding house and is surrounded by a cluster of popular restaurants, including a tiki bar and a gastropub.
With appetites satisfied, those thirsting for a smidge of culture should pay a visit to the Peabody Auditorium. Home to the Daytona Beach Symphony Society and Civic Ballet of Volusia County, it hosts a range of touring concerts and shows.
Daytona is approximately 90 minutes from Orlando. For the most up-to-date travel information on gay Orlando, see our City Guide, Listings Guide, Events Guide and Activities Guide.
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Update: I cant see thru my overgrown bushes, but it looks like the sun is now moving back toward the south slightly.
Is that correct? What's the current status?
This may be damage caused by Cern. The gov'ts fear public retribution if they should do something really stupid to damage the planet or our environment. Whether it be Cern or something else.
Mai, you are good with research. Have you seen any unusual behavior by gov't, NASA, scientists, or a lot of smokescreen of too much scientific info from the gov't or a particular theme (as if they are trying to find a scapegoat to blame) or unusual reports from Cern, etc? Something that looks like the gov't & scientists are panicking to cover up? Anything in that newspaper Huntington something?
I may be losing it but the sun appears farther north than it did last month.
That shouldn't be possible. It may be an optical illusion from the unusual weather or I'm being misled by the bushes which need cutting back. I can't cut them back until the birds are done with their nests.
Those of you in the US or Canada who took position readings last month, please look outside at the sunset at your earliest convenience & see if you are seeing what I'm seeing. I thought I saw the same thing last summer & the year before. The sun should have started moving south in the sky on June 22nd. Not farther north. As I remember, last year, it didn't appear to move south until later in August but I was too ill at the time to check specifics. But this would be seriously wrong if it is really doing this, which is why I need some of you to check the sunset this week. Particularly those who checked the sun position last month from the US & Canada for comparison.
I'm thinking this must be an illusion. But if the rest of you see the same thing, I'd have to find out what is going on. That would imply changes in our orbit around the sun and/or a change in the direction of the axis lean and the timing of the solstices.
So let me know what you see tomorrow or the next day or two at sunset. Is the sun farther north than it was in June.
It never rains here (Dallas) in July except once every 7 years. But it has rained the last 3 days & more. A clue something is different. Plus the heat waves across the country since May. No winter at all here this past year. But weather will be different in each region of the country. Also, you can't go by records because we have micro-climates especially on the east side of the lakes. Lake effect weather. We have several large lakes in the area to provide water. Dallas may get rain where my home in the country 30 miles away gets none or vice versa.
The weather of metro cities is different than suburbs because of the heat bubble from concrete & traffic. That's why the tornadoes usually go around the outskirts of a city. The only reason the tornado hit downtown Ft Worth (in 2000) is because that city is nearly abandoned downtown. Almost zero traffic. Hence, no heat bubble to make weather go around. It is an Agriculture & Cowboy town for the cattle auctions, etc like shown with Ewings of Dallas episodes, so businesses abandoned it. It is about 80 miles from Dallas. The skyscrapers were empty except for a famous restaurant. I was working in ft Worth on a project just the day before it hit.
Regional weather across the world will change like the Northern California droughts. I used to live there as well. Jungles into desert. Desert into swamps, etc. We're still over 100 degrees every day which is normal. The rain is not normal. It shouldn't rain a drop here before September. When it rains the temperature will drop 40 degrees in an hour.
Heat waves in the UK, unheard of droughts there & tornadoes in East Europe since this axis shift began. I lived in Europe too. Panama, 45 different US states, 15 countries, so I'm familiar with weather from many places. The UK was always cold and rainy. Sometime after 2003, London had 600 deaths from a heat wave because no one had air conditioners. Even one of the Harry Potter movies started off with a heat wave. Movie 5, I think. I remember a lot of heat related deaths in Chicago when I worked there. Northern California had cool, foggy summers & never needed Air conditioners except for 3 weeks of the year. Then these droughts hit it.
I don't know how it is lately but they have no business growing rice around Sacramento with water shortages. Especially while Tons of rice has been rotting in Thailand warehouses because of surplus & their weather is better suited for rice crops which have to be kept flooded. Same with the unnecessary rice crops in Houston as well. They are putting rice before people by wasting vast amounts of field flooding waters. Especially when other rice is available & not a main staple of our food Consumption. I also lived next to a rice field in Houston. Rice fields are also a breeding ground for mosquitoes & disease. After they drain the field water & harvest the rice, they burn the fields. I took photos of the thick smoke blinding the pilots in Sacramento from a plane on approach. I couldn't believe California was allowing such pollution of air & water; much less the smoke plumes over a major airport. I was in the plane so I know.
I thought I would share some of this trivia because it shows just how much the city, state & federal gov't cares about the planet, weather & any of us. They would only do something if we were big businesses. I could write a book. I know some of these crooks.
But off subject. I need to know about the sun location this week. It is definitely strange to see the sun appear to be moving further north a month after the summer solstice. Perhaps a weather issue or the bushes cutting off my view. So be sure to let me know.
Hi,im writing from Ireland, and yes….your observations are co+rect. Im a regular sjn moon gazer(no expert…but ive noticed since the beginning of this 'heatwave' that the Sun rises in a totally different position…almost 20′ off. The moon positions and where she rises and sets, plus position in the sky, also seem to be off.
Visible chem trails were very freauent hear in the early am skies…pre dawn at the beginning of June 2018 and somehow, all this is inter onnected!
Tons of us have noticed these changes, and so yes you are right in believing that something is adrift!
I saw photos of chem trails over Belfast about 8 years ago. I think they are trying to cool down the temperatures. We had chemtrails over Northern Dallas every day for several years; 365 days per year. Even Christmas & weekends. The fuel cost over $55,000 per tank over 15 years ago & the website said the US is paying for the UK, Saudi Arabia & other places. 2 planes per day.
They stopped spraying above my house when Pres Bush Jr moved here at the end of 2008. Then they moved the spaying to the west where we couldn't see it. I guess he didn't like having aluminum sprayed on him.
I have a chemtrails post on here with photos & links which I posted about 2009. I can't remember exactly but it should be on the side menu for posts. There is a really neat cloud ripple photo on there. Your can see how it starts to become rain clouds in less than a half hour.
Here is the link to my chem trail post, photos & links.
For those of you who remember my post a couple years ago about the gatling gun lightning bolts shot in front of my path a couple years ago destroying a half mile of trees along the road I was driving and a single odd shuttle-shaped small cloud about the size of a car… there is a photo of its twin over my backyard at the bottom of this chemtrail post link above.
I think it has to be a drone masked to look like a cloud. I could do that with an RC helicopter covered in cotton or something similar. It's stalking. Also, remember I said all lightning data was classified? I called NWS & Plymouth university. Both said lightning was classified when I only wanted a photo or video of a storm from June 2007. (an ion storm).
The only reason for classifying lightning is if it was weaponized. Why does it only appear over my yard & in front of my car? I also had 3 lightning hits on & around my house 2 days in a row, 2 years ago. Just before the gatling gun lightning.
My next door neighbor was complaining about drones over our houses a couple months ago & I thought she lost her marbles. Perhaps not. I have a photo of this drone cloud hanging over my yard for 3 hours. That's not possible for a real cloud. The rotation of the earth & wind breezes would negate that. It appears they really do not want the public to know about the axis & these other issues. There's more to it but one CEO went to prison.
Here is the link about the gatling gun lightning & same cloud 2 years ago. I call it gatling gun because that's how the bolts behave. As if they were rapidly fired from a gatling gun.
Re gatlin gun thunderbolt. I wonder if this has anything to do with plasma discharge? I wish they had never started messing with the atmosphere, it has been bad news ever since. Someone noticed that the strong weather radars can cause ionizing of some kind that makes the atmosphere start into tornadic seeds creating tornadoes in short order. Someone promoted the idea that haarp (or something) is "using" other non-haarp antennas to pass along the energies of whatever they want to do across the land to the point they want it to flow to. I don't quite understand this, but since radio/electric signals are electro-magnetic I can kind of see that idea. I have seen on national radar the cities 'flaring up' seeming to push weather in different directions. Also I have seen humongous radar 'donuts' (they only flash and blink out) appear and then within 3 days something bad happens there. As if it was creating a negative energy vortex or something. I know something is going on with the radars being used like that. I don't know if weather staff are aware of it or not, but if they are, they can't talk about it or go jobless the rest of their lives. Some of the stupid excuses they say on tv about some of the weather oddities are very inventive, especially when they are caught by surprise. Like the idea hurricanes make right angle turns or go backwards. I saw the pic somewhere about the 'strange shape' clouds. Yeah, I saw clouds in a perfect V formation at work and showed it to a coworker and the comment was "cool", even the square hole in the middle of it. Needless to say they moved me to a non-window desk after that. But looking at another pic showing "rows of storm clouds" I saw those too. But what would happen is that a large radar on the other side of town would 'pin them down' and they would start to form a giant swirl. Then they would get puffier and odd-shaped and (more normal looking) and spin into a huge pinwheel shape at which time the radar would then let them all loose and they would kind of fly off like a giant spinwheel and break up into a more normal looking storm front with power. Any rate, I learned a lot about chemtrails and clouds sitting at that window.
Very interesting. This subject overlaps into one of my fields of expertise. This is just a guess, but from what I saw about Harp & the effects it had on people who approached it & the locations; I believe they are trying to repair the hole in the atmosphere above the poles. I have no doubt Harp can ionize the atmosphere but it doesn't produce ionized gas (plasma) from the source antenna grid. Just ionization. Not radio. It's more of an irradiation of elections, protons; etc. in the atmospheric layers. They may also be trying to repair the EM field which helps protect earth from solar flares.
Weather & storms which change direction are best described by tornado behavior. The heat bubbles over large cities caused by solar heating of concrete & asphalt; plus heat from heavy vehicle traffic & pollution; all contribute to the heat bubbles. These are most noticeable with tornadoes which change their path when encountering a heat bubble. The tornadoes will start to follow the edge of the bubble around the outer edge of the city and continue its path eastward. This is why tornadoes are much worse on small towns or low traffic towns like Joplin or ft Worth (which is nearly abandoned.) They don't have heat bubbles. So you usually hear about some small town which was mowed off the map by a large supercell tornado.
Also, cities tend to put airports, mobile homes & industrial areas on the western outskirts of the city, which is why they are usually the areas destroyed. The cities use them as a buffer zone. Too many cities design their planning zones in the same locations for it to be a coincidence those mobile home parks, warehouses & small airports are usually destroyed.
However, heat bubbles don't affect the super cell tornadoes like the one which mowed a path through south OKC around 1999. Over 8000 homes destroyed near Midwest City & Tinker AFB. They have wind speeds 300-500 mph and a ground diameter of more than a mile across.
Large lakes also affect tornadoes due to temperature differential. Cold air causes the vortex to lose strength. They feed on heat. Thus, the tornadoes either follow the edge of the lake as it goes east or they will remain high in the clouds until they get to the other side. Or lift up upon encountering the lake & dropping down again a few miles east of the lake if it gets enough heat & rotation to regenerate.
I found it interesting that the storm clouds created by the chem trails (which I caught on my camera), did not show up on the Weather satellites. I specifically looked for it because I wanted to capture the chemtrails on the satellite video. It wasn't there. Someone edited it out. By the way, they also alter the wind speeds & sizes & categories of tornadoes & hurricanes which they report to the public. They also blame damage on straight line winds so businesses insurance rates don't go up. They only call it a tornado if a storm tracker or camera catches the tornado image for proof.
When I lived in California, I noticed it would never rain Monday thru Friday. But Saturday, just like clockwork, it would rain until Monday morning. This went on for years. I noticed it because I had to water Monday thru Friday to keep plants, grass, gardens & trees from dying. But every weekend, it would rain from Saturday morning to Monday morning & ruin weekend outings. We used to take plastic sheeting so we could create tents over the picnic tables & barbecue cookers to block the rain while we ate. It used to amuse the park rangers but we had the entire redwood forest to ourselves. Only us and the Planet of Apes. I saw no reason to cancel the trip. Just prepare for rain.
This rain pattern was most prevalent in the spring & fall months because our winters were rainy & summers were dry season. The spring & fall rain patterns were caused by the heavy traffic jams along highway 101 which ran the length of the state. The rush hour cars would be caught in stand still traffic jams for 2-3 hours every morning & evening; creeping along, moving only 10 miles in an hour. All the way to work & home. It was miserable. Every year it would back up farther.
On the east side of the highway was a row of mountains the length of the state, so all the heat & pollution was held between the mountains & the coast, emanating from millions of cars idling for hours in standstill bumper to bumper traffic jams. This created a huge heat bubble the entire length of the coastline, keeping the storms & rain clouds out to sea & off the coast from Monday morning to Friday evening. On Saturday & Sunday when the cars were gone & the heat bubble dissipated, the storms & rain clouds were allowed to come ashore & bring rain.
Monday's brought back the traffic jams & heat bubbles blocking the rain off shore again. I have a unique ability to see patterns in everything. I watched these storms do this for 13 years. People thought I was crazy… until they began paying attention to the rain patterns. So heat definitely affects weather & storms. Even worse with the hotter temperatures from the increased axis tilt. Which is why they expect larger Hurricanes & tornadoes each year. It is also why NOAA & NWS changed the wind speed parameters for categorizing Hurricanes & tornadoes. They did this just after Katrina. What was a category 5, is now a category 4. They feared the public noticing an increased number of cat 5's & they might start retaliating against gov't officials & politicians for cutting off pollution protection, filters & restoration of industrial limitations. They keep the public happy & in the dark. They'll never notice if they alter the storm criteria & change the death tolls. They go on with their lives oblivious of the connections.
The gov't also attacks anyone bringing attention to changes such as our tilt & sun being off or northern California turning into a desert. Or Jim Berkland's predictions. One of the global shortages this will cause is water. They estimated this will occur by 2020. That will also cause food shortages from dying crops. Increasing population will also cause Power shortages, etc. Food shortages & large population requires more trucks to transport products & food which makes more traffic, etc. A vicious circle due to no population controls. I did some global shortages research back in 2009. Here are their predictions for 2020. The newspaper articles are at the bottom of the page.
The pinwheel cloud patterns you mentioned are similar to the hurricane style cloud patterns over the central US every day between 3 PM & 4 PM CDT from April to June 2007. Those storms were like blades of a fan raining off & on over us while it was spinning. I had satellite video clips of those spinning storms made comparing days & years on the same times each day for 3 months. The increased axis tilt had moved the spinning storms & Coriolis effect over land which normally form hurricanes in the Atlantic & Caribbean.
As for the atmosphere, Nasa claims the holes were caused by a solar storm sheering the atmosphere above the north pole creating an ion fountain & allowing atmosphere to spew into space. It could also allow solar flare components to leak into our atmosphere as evidenced by the Aurora Borealis & ion storms in 2007.
Those of us who were alive before the lies & BS cover stories, know that the holes in the atmosphere were made by freon. They are currently trying to do revisionist history with dangerous products to make everyone believe they are now safe for the monetary benefit & profit of those Companies who control these products; Freon, asbestos, thalidomide, Diazanon, Organophosphates, aluminum, mercury, lead, hexachlorophene (phisohex), phenol, m-creasol, GMO soy, GMO corn, tobacco, Roundup ready crops & food, aspartame, flu shots, Tylenol, Metformin, children's vaccinations tied to autism, etc., just to name a few.
Plasma is different than lightning. It is an ionized gas. Like seen in the aurora borealis. But not lightning bolts. I call it gatling gun lightning because of the way it fired a dozen bolts at a time, wiped out every tree in a row on one side of the road for a half mile in each direction. Yet it ignored the power lines & grounded power poles on the other side of the narrow, country road.
Take a look at my old Chem trail post on this site. You can see how the trails evolve into huge storm cloud covers within minutes. At the bottom of the chem trail article is the lone cloud which sat over my yard for over 3 hours. It was the same cloud which shot the gatling gun lightning just for 4 miles away about 6 years after I took the picture of that same cloud over my yard. For a cloud to remain stationary for 3 hours, it had to be independently & remotely controlled. An artificial drone cloud. The only cloud in the sky. Easily made by using white cotton on a drone like those 4 point copter drones which can be maneuvered straight up & down, back & forth, side to side & hovering.
I also had multiple lightning strikes on my house, my neighbors house & within 100ft radius. These were from clear skies. It blew apart brand new power poles which were only installed a couple days earlier. As I've said, the only reason for them to classify lightning is if they have weaponized it & I think the gatling gun lightning & cloud drones are the result. Cloud drones have also been seen on the east coast as well. This one has been identical in shape & size, both times I've seen it. If they are waiting for me it will be a long wait because I rarely go outside.
I would still like to find video of the 2 ion storms from June 2007.
I reside at 51.64 degrees North by 121.29 degrees West, on the interior plateau of British Columbia. Two evenings ago I was driving north on Hwy 97, the old gold rush trail leading to Alaska, and noted the near setting sun blinded me, so I've taken renewed interest in polar shift/axis change. Last evening it was still light at 9:30 as I closed the chicken coop and though our heavily treed area and partial cloud cover didn't allow exact reference, light and shadow from the setting sun on the interspersed clouds made it obvious the sun is setting a significant distance north of our latitude here. I too have been aware of the need for the sun to retreat south in the sky following June 21, but my solar panels, mounted on dollies on our front deck needed to be moved forward two weeks ago, south on our deck, because the sun's arc moved further north, placing the solar panels in shade, and there's no need to re-adjust them to account for our sun heading south so far. Interesting times. Reminds me of reading Velikovsky (Worlds in Collision, Ages in Chaos) and Churchward (re, Lemuria and Atlantis) books many years ago.
My home faces due north. Have a front window that never sees sun inside. Yesterday full sun . Lived here 29 years. House hasn't moved but the sun is now between 12 and 1300 . Lat35.3784 log 97.42775.
A day prior it seemed to be at the 1300 position. Sunset position at 1100. Again very unusual.
Our weather is mimicking 2011 temps. To me it seems the sun has tracked further north.
It looks similar to that here as well & it matched my 2011 readings on this past June 21st, 2018.
At first the sun looked like it was due north but upon closer inspection it was between 11 & 12. Twelve being true north. Not magnetic north. But the sun was darn close to true north and shining in my north windows thru the overgrown bushes. Those windows were always in shade before 2004. In fact, I nearly left off the tint & polarizing when I bought my Anderson sliding glass door because of the total shade. But added the features to match the rest. Good thing, because the sun is blinding the room & TV screen I no longer watch. I also had no plants in those windows due to year round shade. I notice these things because I used to build & renovate. Same with the Levolor blinds with foil centers to keep out Texas heat & sun. Some on the north side don't have blinds because there was no sun on the south side & open with a porch on the north side to appreciate the total shade in summer. That was long before the axis shift. I put the china Cabinet in front of one north window without a shade, to block the sun. So this is not a figment of our imaginations.
In fact, I took a course on designing homes to most efficiently use the shade & sunlight to cool & heat the home… building it half underground.
A couple days ago, when I first saw the sun nearly due north, I leapt out of my chair & said, what the hell was that, when I saw it. I simply could not believe my eyes. I need to check the star charts to make sure we aren't sideways.
Have there been any mention of tsunamis, quakes or volcanic eruptions lately or the past year? I don't have TV. I can check online. Although I did notice this same issue last summer but health issues interfered. This has to be the strangest thing I've ever seen & does not match any info or situation ever taught or mentioned in astrophysics. It would certainly make our temperatures hot like it has been. Over 100 every day.
The sunset times have been changing over the past 15 years. 4th of July used to get dark at 9 PM cst. Then it was 9:30 some years and 10 PM after the 2004 tsunami. Now it is 9 PM again. Definitely strange.
But nothing is stranger than seeing the sun nearly north and in July no less. The sun was only setting on the horizon just past 10 on the horizon June 21st ~ 2018. Now half past 11 on the horizon July 12th.
We still get darkness because of the rotation & our axis angle in perspective to the sun. It all depends which direction the axis points & our relationship to the sun from our orbit. They seem to be pulling out every diversion, excuse & fake explanations to divert the public until they get tired of hearing them. They fear public retaliation for the pollution of our environment. So they overload everyone with magnificent BS reasoning until they can't stand it. The star charts should tell us. We need to find orion's position. It is easiest to find.
The Galactic Central Sun of our Milky /way Galaxy is in the constellation Pleiades, referred to as The Seven Sisters. This central star is Alcyone, the constant central axis around which the rest of the galaxy, from our vantage point on earth, is seen to rotate.
Actually. BC news reported over 1000 mini quakes of the southern tip of Vancouver island that moved the island away from the mainland. Was very little but fact remains it was happening past month or so.
I'm lost. Which timeline & subject is this tied to? I'm not familiar with this island shift.
When the gov't acknowledges geographic shifts & other events, they usually will alter the data significantly. Such as 8 inches instead of 800 miles. (NZ 2010 or Japan 2011 if memory serves). Or death tolls from 50,000 downgraded under 3000 (WTC 911). Or Katrina from 10,000 down under 2000. I've worked with FEMA in a major Metro area. These downgrades are deliberate & purposely false.
I lived in Northern California for 13 years. It's been my experience that clusters of miniQuakes usually occur after a major Quake. But volcanic events often occur before a major quake. Especially on the ring of fire or near Italy.
I haven't checked but are there any unusual recent or upcoming moon events? Such as closer to earth. I thought someone mentioned a lunar eclipse? Jim Berkland often tied the moon's behavior & additional gravitational stresses as forerunners of his predictions.
I am at Crewe/Manchester UK because of the jet stream for the first time in 2 months we have had rain today, I did get a position reading for the sun at 314° 8.30pm 13/7/2018 well above the horizon, my comparator is google planetarium which has sunset for my location RA 7hr 32min dec +21° 44′ for my position/date but sunset is 20.16(8.16pm) compared to about 9.20pm on the 7/7th by observation – see my post. I did readings last year and this compares well with midsummer being a month late then with similar anomalies with redshift 2 a maris multimedia software program which runs from disc and hence with the company no longer extant uses data which should be good for +- 5000 years if nothing had changed since 1995(google seems to have stopped playing with data). We are in BST at the moment, so the anomaly is even worse.
P.S. Sunset on 7/7/2018 was exactly 9 pm Crewe/Manchester/UK which was 8.21 pm according to Google planetarium 7 hr 8 min Dec +21° 30′(https://neave.com/planetarium/), I strongly suggest just taking the time down of sunset and checking it against software, sunset being late is hard to miss.
Good to see you milling around! I did hear all the planets have been moving to one side of the sun to be all there effective 7-19 and then slowly over the summer moving on out, which is the 7th time in 120 years coinciding with extra-volcanic action (from what I've found in vids). But there are 3 more important items going on. First, the claim that we are now coming into the eyesight of the Galactic Central Sun (whatever that is) supposedly in the center of the Milky Way as per some observatory in Australia. Second, a lot of asteroids will be "clustering" between Earth and Mars for the entire month of July and part of August, adding to this unbalance. [Maybe this is why there have been so many sightings and near misses.] There is a third thing, but I have embarrassingly misplaced the thought.
UVc is coming all the way to ground now at high rates in many areas. I have a feeling this is to do with the fluctuating magnetosphere.
Large cracks are opening up all over the world. Some say the earth is expanding. I think lower magma is being tugged (it is magnetic), and with all this force being exerted, the plates shift a bit to ease the pressure, cracks happen and the Steamboat Geyser goes off. I compare that to a pressure cooker valve. Better that than something else as the volcanoes here in the US are not "oozers" like the one in Hawaii and we don't want California to fall off. Earth stretch marks are fine, just nothing worse, please!
However, frakking hasn't helped the situation. Hawaiians are starting to wonder if the PGV thermal plant (which essentially does the same thing) didn't set off the fissures in that area instead of it oozing out of the crater or other regular vents. And I look at all the oil frakking in the west volcanic areas, along the mid-continental rift in Michigan, in OK and TX. Not good, as this weakens the layers. These things are out there in the >thousands<, you can see them on GE.
But an honorable mention of seriousness does go to the oceans "disappearing and reappearing" off and on in various places. I figure that is an earth wobble even though in Brazil I have heard that a VERY reduced version happens seasonally. Since when does water totally disappear from the Venice canals? It eventually came back, but still.
There are many incidents of animals acting very out of character. Sometimes I wonder if they are getting more humane while mankind is getting more animalistic.
Of course this is my 'armchair professional opinion'….. ha!
Great info but this sounds like deliberate diversions. Attempts to mislead & distract everyone from realizing serious hazards & situations by overloading them with magnificent BS to the point where they wont believe anything; including the truth.
The gov't has created their luxury shelters under the Denver airport with our tax dollars & plan to put everyone else under Martial Law without shelter, food, water, medicine, etc. Just like their trial run during Katrina in New Orleans. I worked with FEMA in a major metro emergency management agency & know some exec levels responsible for the underground mag lev trains & getting gov't exec's to the shelters. W lives here.
If I lived in Denver after they were all comfy underground in those tax paid luxury shelters filled with donations & Tax paid FEMA supplies while leaving the population under armed lockdown without supplies, I'd find one of those large construction equip used to drill holes, water wells, oil wells or to set skyscraper girders or a TBM's (tunnel boring machines) & dig them up to suffer with the rest of us.
Changes in magnetic poles will only affect EM & electrical devices. It would affect our power grids. So, if you don't see major, global, rolling power outages & interference with your tech devices, computers, phones, TV's & radios, then there is no issue with the magnetic fields no matter what they tell you. Use a compass to check for magnetic north.
This is another diversion to fake out the public. A real change or alteration in the global magnetic fields would affect everything I just mentioned.
If the compass points north, no problem. If it was flipping, the needle would point south or spin.
I just checked the compass. The magnetic field is where it should be. So even though the axis is tipping, our magnetic field & rotation have maintained their normal perspective with the poles. It appears to be controlled by our global rotation & iron magma at the center.
Even if we tip sideways, magnetic north will remain in the arctic. It is like spinning a bar magnet. The same end of the bar magnet maintains its characteristics even if you change its position although it tends to travel around the arctic slightly as our axis shifts. It would only change poles if the planet rotated totally the opposite direction & that won't happen. If we were reversed upside down, it might appear so, but we would still be rotating the same direction. (unless we do something colossally stupid).
We cannot flip completely upside down because we have more landmass & weight at the south pole with its ice covered continent. The north pole has floating ice which doesn't affect weight or balance. Not enough weight to flip upside down. Only sideways.
The map of Antarctica in the 1500's shows it was ice free. So the earth could have been sideways then or closer to the sun. It would look the same to them.
There appears to be a generalized galactic magnetic field & gravitational field with a fixed up & down orientation and ecliptic solar system plane which seems to synchronize & align the planets, characteristics, rotations, orbital spacing, orbits, gravitational positioning of planets, planet sizes in the distance from each sun, etc. in our galaxy & solar systems.
This is not my field of expertise but I find the repeated patterns fascinating.
I just found several of your comments from 2016 which had been discarded by the system. I only just found them while looking in the trash bin. I rarely check it because only unpleasant comments & real spam usually end up in there. Only 8 in 12 years. The system automatically deletes any comments with more than 2 links, assuming it to be spam. I just wanted to let you know that I did not remove or delete your comments.
FYI: The system automatically rejects & discards comments with more than 2 links except for comments posted by the site administrator.
I left a reply this morning, but for some reason, it didn't show up here.
We are in a polar shift, which could account for the abnormal position of the sun. In addition, the sun's UV rays have been much more intense, causing global heat waves and burning of vegetation. The sun is also abnormally bright. We are also having a lineup of the planets on July 19, which has historically been accompanied by increased flooding and volcanic activity, all of which we have been experiencing on a global scale. Tonight, July 13, is a partial lunar eclipse. Not sure what that might bring, but I do think that the earth and sky changes started about the time we had our total solar eclipse this year.
I moderate all comments to avoid the attacks we had about 12 years ago & I don't always get to them quickly. Sometimes they get missed with unusually large numbers of comments like this week.
I did write a very detailed response about the atmosphere causing the issues rather than the sun. But the entire response was lost. The atmosphere affects the color of the Sun & moon. Those of us old enough, remember the atmosphere hole & loss of the ozone layer due to Freon back in the 70's which is why they changed to R-12 & other substitutes. That's when the skin cancers began, due to damage to the ozone layer which filters out UV & other sun components. But they try to hide those past discoveries from the younger generations such as finding aluminum in the brains of people with alzhiemers. All our cookware used to be aluminum as were all the sodas. Now they are finding teflon in our bodies and GMO soy (Monsanto) in breast tumors. I heard this from a radiology oncologist. I was not a patient. I'm fortunately allergic to all of Monsanto's products & soy. The high estrogen levels in GMO soy are also affecting males according to Europe (weight gain & lethargy & energy) & was banned in Europe, Japan, even Mexico & everywhere else except US & Canada. I'll bet they find it in prostate tumors at some point. These companies usually have their employees go online to tip the load of search engine hits to sites in their favor and changing site contents by law suits.
The gov't uses their power over grant & tax monies to bully people into parroting their stance on issues. In 1998, Nasa claimed a solar storm sheered the atmosphere which is leaking our atmosphere into space. That hole was already there due to ozone damage by freon 25 years earlier.
I believe this is another diversion to mislead the public because the gov't & politicians don't want the public to blame them & raise hell over the pollution damaging the atmosphere & water. So they blame the sun with magnificent BS.
W withdrew the US from agreements & international treaties to control pollution. If everyone knew the truth they would be angry. But the gov't uses hirelings & media to divert the blame to something as a scapegoat the public cannot fix, like the sun. (or Oswald JFK) & ridicule, discredit or demean anyone who mentions pollution or environment. (Al Gore) The current Pres cancelled the remaining pollution restrictions so Industry can get rich while asthma & other respiratory problems & Cancers, etc. are at their highest rates. When everyone over 50 dies off, our knowledge of these things will be lost unless those under 50 start doing research on the things we mention while we are still around.
Read about Monsanto & Roundup ready foods. Roundup, the weed killer made by Ortho owned by the same Pharmaceutical company where Rumsfeld was CEO. W's Sec of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The company makes Aspartame, Nutrasweet & was only approved after years of denial by loading the FDA decision committee despite cancer ties and they also have exclusive rights to make & provide flu vaccines. Isn't it amazing how they always know which flu vaccine to make when it takes a year to produce the vaccines. And how these designer flus always come from some Chinese street market. I have a family member who was CIA who was asked to take one of these types of packages to China. I wouldn't let him go. I knew what they were doing. Only the bird flu didn't come out of China because it was too far for birds to fly & falsely blame the Chinese. So they falsely blamed Canada & the birds instead.
When an MSNBC medical consultant & administrator for largest hospital in NYC said those of his staff who got the vaccine all got the flu. Those who didn't, did not get the flu. They cut him off mid sentence & we never heard from him again. I wonder if he was the same doctor who recently jumped from a bridge whose exwife was a well known personality for MSNBC morning shows. Which makes me wonder if he actually jumped. A meteorologist on the Weather Channel mentioned the spinning hurricane pattern over the central US around 2007. She was cut off mid sentence & never seen again.
Meteorologists cannot report weather events unless the NWS reports them first or approves it. Otherwise they are risking their license. A meteorologist in Little Rock, Ark saw the formation of a tornado but the NWS, would not report it or give him permission to warn the local community. He did so anyway & called the local emergency office & airport. He saved many lives & airplanes but last heard the NWS was trying to revoke his license. This was in the 90's. I don't know the end results. But this is why the meteorologists will not speak about bizarre weather or sun position or d disagree with the NWS. They are held hostage by their licenses & the NWS.
My mother always got the flu every year from the flu shot. My brother & I refused to get the shots & have never had the flu. A doctor on Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy series who treated gov't execs & went who hiding in Panama, said the shots were designed to destroy the immune system.
In the case of the TV series ancient aliens, they try to discredit their findings & flood the internet & TV with magnificent BS to divert the public & attention with false data from some profound source who is dependent on gov't grant monies. The only false pseudohistory being fed to the public is coming from the US gov't & their university grant money minions whom have been twisting the past & history and covering the locations of missing artifacts. They even cover up hieroglyphs to hide them. The US gov't gives out huge sums of money to buy the silence of foreign countries & their representatives.
The Smithsonian has been hiding discoveries such as the Egyptian artifact cave in the grand canyon which was reported in a local newspaper and reports of Phoenician artifacts in other states. But Smithsonian claims ignorance of the locations of the cave of artifacts even though the newspaper article in the 1800's clearly states their involvement and names names.
Same as the crusades were used to steal & hide artifacts in the UK, France and Vatican archives. And the way the gov't diverted attention from the anthrax attacks in 2001 traced to Ft Detrick Army bio lab about 30 miles north of Washington DC which was found to be the source by DNA and falsely blamed the Facility director microbiologist who would have known who was really responsible. When he left ft Detrick & got a job at Rice, the gov't threatened their grant money if he wasn't fired. So three weeks after he was hired, he was fired.
I lived in Europe & visited a lot of places & saw many things. Plus being all over the US. I have not been to Egypt or Eastern Europe.
I tried to redo my lost response in a hurry & added more so it may not be as good as I would like. I may have repeated info from other responses because I couldn't remember which was which. I tried to include examples of gov't pressure & efforts to cover up or divert attention & blame elsewhere. It sounds like they are filling the internet with multiple BS stories to explain the suns behavior.
This is quite possible, since we are going through a major polar shift. The sun is also a different color now, as it is bright white, and the UV rays have increased exponentially. UV readings all over the world are alarmingly intense, even in places like Denmark. Here in Southern California, plants have been burning up from the UV rays. In about six days, we will have a rare planetary line up. Historically, this type of line up has been accompanied by increased volcanic and flooding activity, which we have been having throughout the world. I think that the total solar eclipse that we had this year marked the beginning of earth changes, which we are now seeing, both on earth and in the sky. By the way. We are having a partial lunar eclipse tonight.
I live in rural north western PA on the Ohio border. I have noticed daylight arriving late. A newscaster in New York commented on this yesterday. He was concerned. Also songbirds have stayed around here, much longer than in previous years. They are still here. Bàsed on your measurements and the normal tilt of the earth where would your home be sitting? In the Gulf?
If you can, try to confirm the sunset position tonight or tomorrow. In addition to the overgrown bushes over 12 ft high, I have had cloud cover & intermittent storms since Wednesday. The sunset occurred here between 8:30-8:45 PM Central Daylight savings time. Depending on your longitude, it would be an hour later in PA. The sunset time varies based on physical locations. It is also getting hotter in the summer.
I used to live in Wilkes Barre in the mid 70's. I've lived everywhere & moved over 45 times. Before the internet, my job skills were in big demand because I was a national expert in over 65 fields. Before that, my father was military.
However, since the internet came along, we can access the knowledge of others globally. With my health issues, plus doing something stupid like exacerbating a new injury by seriously overdoing 6 days ago, things like cutting bushes become major obstacles. Plus, the cardinals are sitting on a nest & I couldn't cut the bushes even if I was able. So I have to confirm what I see with observations of others.
I appreciate any info. In June, the sunset position looked like 2 notches past 10 on a clock face. It now looks like past 11 which is crazy for July & not correct to be further north after June 22nd, to be sure.
I moved recently so unable to help. However I thought the same figured was cause of the move.


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RZA "The Next Three Days" LADYBRILLE Interview
by Ladybrille Magazineon November 16, 2010 November 16, 2010 Leave a Comment on RZA "The Next Three Days" LADYBRILLE Interview
While best known as the founder, producer, and mastermind behind the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA has built an incredibly diverse and successful career as a musician, a composer of film scores, a producer, an actor, a businessman, a player and advocate of chess, and as the author of the best-selling The Tao of Wu and The Wu-Tang Manual.
He was born Robert Fitzgerald Diggs in Brownsville, Brooklyn on July 5, 1969 and first surfaced on the hip-hop scene during the early Nineties. After brief stints as a member of the group All in Together Now and as a solo artist under the name Prince Rakeem, he formed the Wu-Tang Clan in 1992. Based in Staten Island the band went on to become one of the most successful and influential hip-hop groups of all time.
Their debut LP, 1993's Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), driven by RZA's unique, groundbreaking beats and signature gritty production style, has become a definitive hip-hop classic and is revered as one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever. Meanwhile, he has released several solo albums under his own name, under that of his hedonistic alter ego, Bobby Digital, and also as Digital Bullet, Birth of a Prince, and, most recently, Digi Snax.
An avid chess player, RZA created WuChess.com, the world's first online hip-hop chess community. At the website, hip-hop fans can learn to play from chess masters, compete for scholarships and square-off against him and other hip-hop celebrities.
RZA is a Grammy Award-winning music producer, with a distinguished body of work scoring movies for filmmakers such as Ridley Scott, Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino. His acting credits include Due Date, Repo Men, Ghost Dog, The Killers, Funny People, American Gangster, Life is Hot in Crack Town and Derailed.
Here, he talks about his latest outing playing Mouss in The Next Three Days, an action-thriller directed by Academy Award-winner Paul Haggis and co-starring a couple of other Oscar-winners in Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Hi RZA, thanks for the time.
RZA: Peace, man. What's up? You having a good day?
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Can't complain. I really enjoyed The Next Three Days, an edge-of-the-seat thriller that takes you on an exciting roller coaster ride.
RZA: I loved it, too. Those last 40 minutes were adrenaline-filled.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: What was it like to work with a trio of Academy Award-winners in Paul Haggis, Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson?
RZA: Oh, man, it was a pleasure and a great learning experience. When you're dealing with the cream of the crop, all that does is make me sharper. My having a chance to work around those gentlemen has helped me become better at what I do. I couldn't have asked for a better acting credit to add to my resume.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Harriet Pakula Teweles asks: What's it like to play a drug dealer?
RZA: [Laughs] It was cool, because I played a cop in the last film I did with Russell Crowe [American Gangster]. So, to be on the other side of the law this time was a lot of fun, and a nice challenge for me.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Harriet also says: Some soundtracks try to manipulate the viewer's feelings by having a heavenly chorus suddenly start singing when your emotions are being played upon. How do you use music when scoring a film? To shape and frame the action? To manipulate the viewer's emotions?
RZA: I do incorporate those elements into my scoring. When scoring, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Larry Greenberg says: You've got a lot of AKA names. Do any of them come with their own persona or swag?
RZA: The answer to that is "Yes!" Actually, most people have many different personalities. I've just learned to identify them and to name them.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: When is your next album, The Cure, finally coming out?
RZA: That's something I haven't been able to answer for ten years. [Laughs] I know my fans who are interested in this subject are getting tired of hearing it, but all I can say is, "I got it!"
LADYBRILLEmag.com: You're a Renaissance Man who does acting, directing, producing, performing, recording, scoring movies, and more. Which is your favorite?
RZA: I guess I feel more inclined towards this or that form of artistic expression at different times. Right now, I feel very hyped-up about the work I'm doing in front of the camera on the silver screen. It brings me joy to hear that people are laughing at my scene in Due Date. And I had some buddies with me at the premiere of The Next Three Days, and they were happy to see me get aggressive, because they remember me being like that when I was younger. However, I'd say that directing is in my heart. And that's where my focus is, like a laser beam. That's what I've been studying for a long time, and I think that everything that I've done before has contributed to the development of my craft as a director.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Who would you like to act opposite as a love interest in a romantic comedy?
RZA: Hmm… Hollywood is full of some of the most beautiful people in the world. I wouldn't mind being in a movie with any one of those pretty girls. It would take me an hour to answer that question, but I would love to star in a romantic comedy. [Laughs]
LADYBRILLEmag.com: I know you love movies, especially karate movies. What is your favorite movie of all time, and what is your favorite martial arts movie of all time?
RZA: You can't ask a movie buff like me that kind of question. I'd like to ask you that type of question and see if you can answer it.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: No, I couldn't either. I have a hard time just picking my favorite film of the year. Most critics put out an annual Ten Best List, but I put out a Hundred Best List because I like so many movies.
RZA: See? I understand exactly! I can say this, though. The one kung fu film that has inspired me the most is called The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. It's been a great inspiration to me.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Somebody told me that you're from a very large family. Is that true?
RZA: That's super-duper true! [Chuckles]
LADYBRILLEmag.com: How many people?
RZA: At least a 1,000 in my extended family, easily. My mother had 11 kids. ODB's [The late Ol' Dirty Bastard] father and my grandmother are brother and sister. His mother had 8 children, and they all had a lot of babies. And all of these people live right here in the 5 boroughs of New York.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Is there any question no one ever asks you, that you wish someone would?
RZA: Yeah, are you having a good time?
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Tasha Smith question: Are you ever afraid?
RZA: Rarely, but yes, of course.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Columbus Short question: Are you happy?
RZA: Yes.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Teri Emerson question: When was the last time you had a good laugh?
RZA: You made me laugh a few minutes ago. [Chuckles]
LADYBRILLEmag.com: What is your guiltiest pleasure?
RZA: It has to be women, but I've learned to curb my appetite.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The bookworm Troy Johnson question: What was the last book you read?
RZA: 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The music maven Heather Covington question: What are you listening to on your iPod?
RZA: I'm listening to Kanye's new music, and to my buddy John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Who'd you like to collaborate with musically, that you've never worked with before?
RZA: I would love to get a chance to rock with Stevie Wonder.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: What is your favorite dish to cook?
RZA: My signature dish? I have a special style of frying tofu that even the most carnivorous meat and potatoes eaters enjoy. I will give you a taste of some tofu that I could open a restaurant and get rich off of.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Uduak Oduok question: Who is your favorite clothes designer?
RZA: The clothes that I'm wearing right now were actually designed by some buddies of mine who have a company called Resist. They have the coolest T-shirts. But as far as a classic designer, I'm gonna stick with Gucci, because Gucci has never let me down.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
RZA: I see a chance for a better world.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: If you could have one wish instantly granted, what would that be for?
RZA: Universal peace.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Ling-Ju Yen question: What is your earliest childhood memory?
RZA: Having a piece of cake at my great-grandfather's birthday when I was 3. I remember taking off a hunk of the icing with my hands because I didn't think that flowers belonged on a cake.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Nancy Lovell Question: Why do you love doing what you do?
RZA: Because it helps my family, and so many other people in the process.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Flex Alexander question: How do you get through the tough times?
RZA: I feel like the tough times are behind me.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Rudy Lewis question: Who's at the top of your hero list?
RZA: My moms, Linda G. Hamlin. She was a great rode model.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Tavis Smiley question: How do you want to be remembered?
RZA: I haven't decided. I'll leave that to the world. Besides, I ain't ready to leave this planet yet, man. [LOL]
LADYBRILLEmag.com: What advice do you have for anyone who wants to follow in your footsteps?
RZA: Do the knowledge, meaning: look, listen, observe, and also respect. If you do that, you'll have a strong foundation to build anything you want to do in life upon. Know before you do. Look before you leap. And if you want to follow in my footsteps, make sure you step in the ones that went in the right direction.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Thanks again for the time, RZA, and best of luck with everything.
RZA: Thanks, Kam, and I look forward to speaking with you again in the future.
~Kam Williams
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The premier dessert for coffee houses is tiramisu. This recipe will guide you as you make your own at home.
This recipe makes a huge amount of tiramisu: probably enough for 16, if they're exercising portion control. (But good luck with that once they taste this stuff!) If you aren't making this for an event or large gathering, you can half the recipe and you'll probably be just fine.
Pull the shots of coffee, add the rum, coffee liqueur and 3 shots of the chocolate liqueur. Save 2 shots of the chocolate liqueur for later. Set the liquids over to the side.
Separate the egg yolks from the egg whites. The egg yolks should be mixed with the remaining chocolate liqueur and the sugar. Put the egg yolks in a pan that can be placed on top of another to create a "water bath" effect. The lower pan should be filled with water that is brought to a rolling boil. Constantly stir the egg yolk/chocolate liqueur mixture while it is being heated. Heat for about three minutes, until the mixture is light and bubbly.
Take the mixture off of the heat, then immediately mix this with the mascarpone. Use an electric mixture so that this is blended thoroughly.
In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until they are at stiff peaks.
Fold the egg whites into the mascarpone mixture.
In a small glass bowl, pour in most of the chocolate chips (save some for a garnish). Add the milk and microwave for about one minute, until melted. Stir and set to the side.
One at a time, dunk the ladyfingers in the liquid mixture. This will ensure that each ladyfinger receives an equal amount of liquid. Layer them along the bottom of the trifle bowl. Spread approximately half of the filling on top of the ladyfingers. Sprinkle powdered chocolate over this then drizzle the liquid chocolate over this. Repeat for the second layer.
Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 12 hours.
Use whipped cream and some chocolate chips to garnish. You may want to cut up the tiramisu and garnish each plate separately.


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Home Entertainment First trailer for Transformers: The awakening of the beasts, this is the...
First trailer for Transformers: The awakening of the beasts, this is the new movie with returns and surprises
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts It just got its first trailer.
The next Transformers movie sees the war between the Autobots and Decepticons continue, while also introducing the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons for the first time.
"Over millions of years, our world has been transformed," read the ominous business cards. "But something else has awakened."
The trailer sees the return of the legendary Transformer, Optimus Prime, as well as fan-favorite Bumblebee, who recently got his own spin-off movie.
Speaking of which, it seems Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is set in 1994., shortly after the events of the spin-off. In fact, the new movie is said to be "a globe-trotting '90s adventure with the Autobots and will introduce a new breed of Transformers – the Maximals – into the ongoing battle on Earth between the Autobots and Decepticons."
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts stars Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime alongside the legendary Ron Perlman as the gorilla-inspired Optimus Primal. Pete Davidson voices Mirage, with Liza Koshy as Arcee, Cristo Fernandez as Wheeljack, and John DiMaggio as Stratosphere.
Plus, we get a look at the other Maximals, Airazor (Michelle Yeoh), Rhinox (David Sobolov), and Cheetor, who will face a new enemy: the Predacons and Terrorcons.
There are Peter Dinklage as Scourge, Michaela Jaé Rodríguez as Nightbird and David Sobolov as Battletrap.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will star Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback on the human side of the conflict and is directed by Steven Caple Jr.
The film was first announced in 2021 and was due for release this year before being pushed back a full year to 2023. Caple has celebrated the completion of production on the film with a rather cool Instagram post featuring him in the driver's seat. Optimus Prime's truck.
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The life of Lusinia Anne Rose has always been infused with love for animals, plants and people, and with searching for and finding her love for herself. From this love emerged a deep connection with the spiritual world.
In 2008 Lusinia and her husband walked the Way of St. James. During this very spiritual time, this book was dictated to her by the spiritual world.
This book is intended to help us recognise the task of the shared twin flame energy by going within and finding our own energy, our own being, and from there, recognising our twin flame, our twin soul, if both souls have agreed to meet in this life. The book is also intended to make clear that your partner does not necessarily have to be your twin flame for your relationship to be happy.
It gives us the spiritual guidance to understand the spiritual connections and laws more easily and to integrate them into our lives. The words bring truth and clarity and deeply and lovingly touch our soul.


spaced 2: future recall will tour nationally throughout 2017-2019.
Participating artists: Michael Bullock (VIC), Erin Coates & Anna Nazzari (WA), Archana Hande (India), Lily Hibberd (VIC), Jay Koh (Singapore/Germany), Pia Lanzinger (Germany), Maddie Leach (New Zealand), Tea Mäkipää (Finland), Daphne Major (The Netherlands), John Mateer (WA), Daniel Peltz (USA), Ruben Santiago (Spain). Monika Thomas (WA).
our inaugural spaced: art out of place exhibition toured nationally throughout 2013 - 2014.
The spaced: art out of place program commenced throughout 2009-11 and involved 21 Australian and international artists and 16 regional Western Australian communities. Charged with creating new works through a protracted engagement with the local social and environmental context, the outcome of these projects took many forms including artworks, workshops, online archives, exhibitions and publications.
Seeking to bridge the gulf between site-specificity and gallery presentation, projects created during these residencies were first shown in the communities in which they were developed, and subsequently edited and reconfigured for the inaugural spaced: art out of place exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre (4 February – 11 March 2012) and the national tour. The exhibition explores the relationship between globalisation and local idenitity with imaginative and stimulating works in sculpture, photography, painting, installation and multi-media. Further information on each of the projects can be found here.
Participating Artists: Art Orienté objet (France), Julia Davis (NSW), Sohan Ariel Hayes and Michael Woodley (WA), Nigel Helyer (NSW), Sonia Leber and David Chesworth (VIC), M12 Collective (USA), Makeshift (NSW), Kate McMillan (WA), Bennett Miller (WA), Ritchie Ned Hansel (Indonesia), Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis (The Netherlands), Michelle Slarke (WA), Philip Samartzis (VIC), Jakub Szczesny and Kaja Pawelek (Poland), Roderick Sprigg (WA), Takahiko Suzuki (Japan/Taiwan) and Mimi Tong (NSW).
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Army Corps: $2.8B Damage From Mississippi River Floods
Fri March 01, 2013 - National Edition
Adrian Sainz - ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Mississippi River and Tributaries system operated as it was designed and was mostly successful in fighting the flood along most of the nation's most important inland waterway.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Mississippi River flooding of 2011 caused $2.8 billion in damage and tested the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' system of levees, reservoirs and floodways like never before, exposing vulnerabilities that need attention, a report released Monday said.
The report from the corps said the flood hit 119 counties in the lower Mississippi River states of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. More than 21,000 homes and businesses and 1.2 million acres of agricultural land were affected, and more than 43,000 people felt some effects.
The Mississippi River and Tributaries system operated as it was designed and was mostly successful in fighting the flood along most of the nation's most important inland waterway, the corps said. However, the spring floods exposed vulnerabilities in many parts of the system and the plans used to operate it. The report said there is room for improvement in nearly all areas.
"The magnitude of the event tested the system and its individual components like no flood before it," the report said.
Nearly all of the levee or floodwall systems experienced some damage. The floodways at Birds Point-New Madrid in Illinois, and the Morganza Floodway and Bonnet Carre Spillway in Louisiana were opened to relieve the stress on the system, marking the first time that three floodways had been operated during a single flood, the report said.
Total economic damages were pegged at $2.8 billion. The corps spent nearly $60 million while directly fighting the flood from March to August.
Levee-related problems that emerged during included instability of levee slopes, seepage and sand boils, which are pools of water that bubble up near levees. The corps identified where repairs to levees and other parts of the system are needed and is using $802 million approved by Congress in 2011 to make critical and non-critical fixes "to prepare for the next high water event."
Most will be completed this year, but several "critical repair" projects are expected to extend into 2015 and 2016.
"The system will be restored to a pre-flood condition and in some cases be a better system," the report said.
The lengthy report identified several deficiencies exposed during the flood. In and near Cairo, Ill., city pumping stations could not be used due to poor maintenance — resulting in localized flooding — and some neighborhoods were under water as engineers fought to deal with growing sand boils.
There were river bank failures in President's Island in Memphis and Tiptonville, both in Tennessee. Hundreds of homes in three Memphis-area trailer parks were inundated when two tributaries overtopped their banks.
High water in and around Eagle Lake, Miss., where levels were raised to offset pressure from the rising river, caused damage to piers and boat houses around the lake and affected boating and fishing.
In Louisiana, officials ordered mandatory evacuations for hundreds of residents in the Atchafalaya Basin after the Morganza floodway was opened. But flooding in those areas wound up being far less severe than the corps initially projected.
The corps said it was able to use technologies such as smart phones and social media to its advantage, at times.
"When they were not applied properly, confusion and frustration resulted and special rules for the proper use of social media were found to be needed," the report said.
Other technology-related problems included poor cell phone reception in some remote areas, a shortage of phones and radios, and that too few people were trained to use some information collection and sharing tools at the beginning of the flood.
The report also said that the flood affected the estuarine system and the oyster industry in Mississippi Sound, Lake Borgne, and Breton Sound, La. Economic losses to the oyster industry in Mississippi alone in 2011 were approximately $60 million, according to the report.
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Today in HisStory
History from a Christian Perspective
Author Tamera Lynn Kraft
Facts in History
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Irish missionary Moluag died. He had introduced Christianity to the Island of Lismore and parts of northeastern Scotland. (592 AD)
Five Canterbury monks reported something exploding on Moon. (1178)
The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith for the Lutheran Church, was presented by Germany's Protestant princes to Holy Roman emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. (1530)
The German Book of Concord was published. It contained all the official confessions of the Lutheran Church. (1580)
The fork was introduced to Americans by Governor Winthrop in Plymouth. (1630)
Lunar eclipse was the first astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies. (1638)
First blood transfusion was performed by French Doctor Jean-Baptiste Denys. (1667)
First recorded monthly Quaker meeting was held in US at Sandwich, Massachusetts. (1672)
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, a Venetian, was awarded a doctorate of philosophy. She was the first woman to receive a university doctoral decree. (1678)
John and Charles Wesley and four other clergymen held the first Methodist Conference in London. (1744)
US Civil War: US General George Meade replaced General Hooker as commander of the Army of the Potomac. (1863)
English pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor prayed for twenty-four willing and skillful workers and founded the China Inland Mission. It later known as OMF—the Overseas Missionary Fellowship International. (1865)
First barbed wire was patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio. (1867)
US Civil War: Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina were readmitted to the US. (1868)
In the Battle of the Little Bighorn, US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. It became known as "Custer's Last Stand". (1876)
Mann Act was passed stating no man can take a women across state lines for immoral purposes. (1910)
US Civil War: Veterans began arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913. (1913)
Myrtle Wilson and a group of women who wanted to be missionaries in Africa prayed for funds. Within a month, they receive enough money to sail for their destination. (1917)
US President Hoover authorized building of Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam. (1929)
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination in the National Defense Industry. (1941)
WW2: Major General Dwight Eisenhower was appointed commander of US forces in Europe. (1945)
Anne Frank's diary was published in Netherlands. (1947)
Korean War: The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea. (1950)
US Supreme Court ruled school prayer is unconstitutional. (1962)
US Supreme Court upheld male-only draft registration and declared it constitutional. (1981)
US Supreme Court ruled family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known. (1990)
Independence Day, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, premiered (1996)
The US Supreme Court ruled police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order. (2014)
About Tamera Lynn Kraft
Tamera Lynn Kraft has always loved adventures and writes Christian historical fiction set in America because there are so many adventures in American history. She is married to the love of her life, has two grown children, and lives in Akron, Ohio. Soldier's Heart and A Christmas Promise are two of her historical novellas that have been published. She has received 2nd place in the NOCW contest, 3rd place TARA writer's contest, and is a finalist in the Frasier Writing Contest.
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History is really His Story. God is at work throughout history. This today in history site is compiled by Tamera Lynn Kraft. It isn't complete but highlights interesting events in history from a Christian perspective.
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We provide air duct cleaning of the heating, ventilation, air conditioning systems for our residential and commercial clients. By utilizing a proprietary "state of the art" air duct cleaning truck, our franchisees are assured of providing the best possible cleaning for any type of project. We are members of the National Air Duct Cleaners Association and subscribe to their specifications for "source removal" duct cleaning. With this process, foreign materials are removed from an HVAC system's duct work, as opposed to being chemically treated or painted over. This typically yields the cleanest air and the longest interval between cleanings.


Communicating with a young child is a guessing game at best. "Did you poop? Are you hungry? Is that a new tooth? Are you not feeling well? Is it just gas? I don't know, where is mommy?" The same can be said whenever you travel abroad or simple call most companies customer service line. You know the heavily accented man on the other end of the line is not, in fact, named Steve. But we play their game to get something we need or desire. In the case of our kids, that's usually just to get them to stop crying.
As a parent, you take for granted the weird things your child says in exchange for the real word. For example, my 22 month old says "cho cho" when she wants Cheerios. Outside of my wife and I, who would know that? The good news is as kid's speech matures, they grow out of this. They can eventually enunciate what they want if full sentences. But what if they don't grow out of it?
Reno Moms Blog touched upon this a few weeks ago. When their blog post came out, my wife and I were on the list to get our oldest daughter tested at Child Find. What is Child Find? Per their website: "Child Find is a service of the Washoe County School District and is a federally-funded program established to help identify the un-served child. After a child has been evaluated and found eligible for services, the Child Find team works with the parents or guardians to create an appropriate program for the child." What it really boils down to is Special Education.
Society has put this stigma on "Special Ed." As a parent, it can be a tough pill to swallow that your child needs services above and beyond the norm. You can feel that you've somehow failed as a parent. But if it helps your child thrive and you DON'T make the call, then you would be failing them as a parent.
My oldest daughter just turned 4 and she's never been at a loss for words; in fact, her mouth never stops running. As parents, we can understand the vast majority of what she is saying. If we don't catch a word here or there, you can generally get it out of the context. It wasn't until she started going to The Goddard School that an outside observer pointed out that, compared to her peers, she was more difficult to understand. They gave us this great chart of what letters and sounds kids should be able to make by what ages. According to that chart, we thought she was right where she was supposed to be… or were we just not wanting to acknowledge the elephant in the room?
Our daughter changed classrooms. During our parent-teacher conference, her new teacher also pointed out she was behind in her speech pathology. For example, our daughter was telling a story about two of her kitties, but she has a habit of replacing the k sounds with a t. Needless to say, the story took on a different meaning.
At home, when we can't understand a word and can't navigate around it by context or using the "show me" trick, she will have melt downs. In her mind, she knows what she is saying so when she screams it over and over at us, it sounds correct to her so why can't we understand her?!?! Not being understood will frustrate the best of us, but we're Italian, so patience is not a virtue to which we subscribe. She yells, I yell and nothing is resolved.
So I made the call. Child Find answered, took down my information and my concerns and set an appointment to be evaluated. Since our only concern was speech, I was surprised they had us block out 4 hours for the appointment. But once we were there, our daughter was evaluated by the nurse, by a regular teacher, by a special education teacher, by a psychologist and finally by a speech pathologist. They all score their tests, write their reports and go over them with us. They're great about organizing our time. While one was giving us results, another was scoring their test, while another was working with our daughter. So neither mom or dad, or our daughter sat for hours. The small amount of downtime was filled with playing as you're in your own room filled with toys.
Once all was said and done, their tests confirmed our concern: Our daughter needed speech therapy. We will get to do this at the Elementary school she is zoned. She's excited to go there early since some of the neighbor girls she plays with are already there. She gets to feel like the big girl she's becoming and soon, more adults in her life will be able to understand her complex stories which will only improve her confidence.
Bottom line: Swallow your pride as a parent, make the call and get them tested if you have any concerns. For us, it was speech. For you, it may be cognitive abilities or gross/fine motor skills or emotional intelligence. Child Find is here to help your family.
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The present book addresses students of English who need to improve their usage of English in specific professional contexts: business communication, engineering sciences and applied modern languages. In writing this manual, I have relied on my academic interactions with students from IT, telecommunications, business administration and more recently, applied modern languages. As I was trying to collect a set of teaching materials, I realized that the Romanian book market offers little studies on English for IT and Telecommunications, dating back from the -70's and -90's. This fact has triggered my desire to come up with a new perspective on the study of English applied in a field that has been registering considerable progress. Since my teaching activities have implied an intersection between English for IT, Telecommunications and Business Communication, I realized that I could blend business communication and information technologies, since actual business practices involve high reliance on IT. Therefore, the project of writing a book of English for IT, Telecommunications and Business Communication is designed as an original attempt to cover the link between the fields of engineering sciences and the business world.
The book can be used for students of an intermediate level and it contains 14 units. Each unit starts with a speaking section that requires the students to practice their oral expression about a specific topic (IT or business related). Another layer of each unit is represented by the Reading Comprehension section that introduces a fragment extracted from specialized literature (of business studies and engineering sciences). The Reading Comprehension exercises check the students' understanding by having them answer questions about specific details, detect true/false sentences and solve multiple choice exercises.
The vocabulary sections contain exercises that involve the use of specific terms through the practice of antonyms, word–formation mechanisms, synonyms, phrasal verbs and prepositions.
The novelty of this book is provided by its emphasis on grammatical notions that most manuals tend to present as brief entries, rather than detailed accounts. However, my experience has taught me that most students have problems in using grammar, irrespective of the semantic area involved. Therefore, a clear explanation of grammatical notions is meant to consolidate their correct English expression as required by their specific domains.
are seldom approached in manuals for faculties other than foreign languages/applied modern languages (e.g. foreign plurals, definite/indefinite articles, quantifier phrases, phrasal verbs, etc.)The thorough grammatical explanations are followed by a practical section of exercises that combines specific vocabulary with the solving of grammatical tasks.
Therefore, the students get the chance to practice both the grammatical items and the vocabulary notions from the respective lesson. Most of the units also contain a translation section in which the students have to translate a specialized text from Romanian into English in order to employ newly acquired terms and practice their ability to use English grammar correctly.
The Writing Section placed at the end of each unit asks students to construct sound arguments on a topic related to the content of the respective unit. This type of task involves the practice of grammar, vocabulary along with specific strategies of formulating a coherent argument. Given the link it offers between the world of technology and the business universe, the present book can be a useful instrument for students of Business Communication, IT, Telecommunications and Applied Modern languages. While using it, students will improve their specialized vocabulary and their knowledge of English grammar.
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